Shi Lei, a thousand households in Laizhou Mansion, controlled the flying sword and slowly landed on the ground.

A few hundred meters in front of him is the majestic Luojing Wall. It is more than ten zhang high, standing on the surface of the ground, like a gray-black cliff that crosses half a day.

Dense ballistas and huge trebuchets guarded the walls, and the soldiers patrolling the top of the walls were as small as ants. Standing beneath it, it seems that you can feel the weight of the majestic masonry coming towards you.

It is not the first time Shi Lei has come to the capital.

However, no matter how many times he came, every time he saw this magnificent city wall and the glittering array luster on the city gate, he would still feel extremely shocked.

Legend has it that when Emperor Taizu of Great Qi built the "Heavenly Dragon Array", he once ambitiously stated that he wanted to turn Luojing into an "impregnable fortress" and "a majestic city that will never fall".

"If Luojing City really falls one day, I'm afraid the end of the world is coming." Many people, including Shi Lei, have sighed in their hearts.

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According to the rules of the Exorcism Division of the Great Qi Dynasty, a thousand household officials like Shi Lei, who are in charge of the affairs of slaying demons and demons in a mansion, need to come to the capital to report on their work every six months.

Although the intelligence department can understand the situation in various parts of the country through the technique of heavenly machine deduction, there are many limitations in the technique after all, and the information obtained is relatively vague, and it may also be interfered with.

Therefore, the headquarters of the Exorcism Division needs to understand more detailed information about each province and government through these local officials, so as to make follow-up work arrangements and resource allocation; At the same time, the capacity of local officials can be assessed face-to-face.

Under normal circumstances, Shi Lei's report time is in April - when the "Luoshui Conference" has ended, and all the official offices and yamen in Luojing will return to their calm and busy daily work.

He originally planned to visit Shi Xiaohan to see how his baby daughter was doing in Longmen Academy, and by the way, he would discuss with the two young people about lifelong affairs.

Ever since Shi Xiaohan gave Gu Xu a pill workshop, the people around him had obviously regarded them as a couple, or even an unmarried couple.

After all, under normal circumstances, how could anyone be willing to give their core industry as a birthday gift to an ordinary colleague?

And recently, there are always acquaintances who will come to Shi Lei, or congratulate him with a smile on finding a good son-in-law, or joke that "Lord Shi really loves his daughter and prepared such a rich dowry for her."

This undoubtedly made Shi Lei feel very embarrassed.

Because it was difficult for him to explain to others that the pill workshop was not a dowry, but a fool's daughter's own initiative.

Shi Xiaohan himself may not care about the public opinion around him.

But Shi Lei, as a father, is obviously impossible to ignore his daughter's reputation.

Even if Shi Xiaohan has no ladylike demeanor on weekdays, she is the daughter of the official eunuch after all - if she continues to let gossip spread everywhere, but in the end Gu Xu did not marry her, then the Shi family will definitely become a laughing stock in the eyes of everyone.

"Alas, it's all to blame Shangcang for being jealous of the talent and not giving Gu Xu's kid a good body." Whenever he thought of this, Shi Lei couldn't help but sigh again and again.

However, the letter sent by Shi Xiaohan made him change his original plan.

With Shi Lei's doting on his daughter, when Xiao Han asked him to come to the capital to watch the "Luoshui Conference", it was naturally difficult for him to refuse.

Therefore, he applied to the headquarters of the Exorcism Division, hoping to go to Beijing in advance to report on his work, and give him a chance to personally cheer for his daughter in the "Luoshui Conference".

The headquarters of the Exorcism Division also reasonably agreed to his request.

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After arriving in Luojing, Shi Lei boarded a black carriage with a silver-white star pattern and drove straight towards the Yamen, the headquarters of the Exorcism Division, which was located on the hill.

At this time, Luojing City was more noisy and busy than every time he had seen it before.

In the streets and alleys, there are not only Luojing locals, but also young monks and their relatives and friends who have come from all over the country to participate in the "Luoshui Conference".

There are even countless people who eat melons, who are passionately arguing about topics such as "which Tianjiao is most likely to win the championship", "Who do you think is more powerful than Chu Fengge, Su Xiao and Zhao Yan".

The official dialect of Daqi and the dialects of all over the world converged to form a boiling sound wave, continuously impacting Shi Lei's eardrums.

Shi Lei keenly captured that in the conversations of these people, the frequency of the name "Gu Xu" seemed to be very high.

"It seems that the rumors are true," Shi Lei thought silently in his heart, "That kid really made a name for himself in the capital." ”

The person in charge of talking to Shi Lei is Shangguan Jin.

She is not very old, and her official rank is only five grades, but as a trusted personal attendant of the head of the department, she shoulders extremely important responsibilities, and is in charge of the daily affairs of the exorcism department, large and small. Even officials with a higher rank than her did not dare to snub her. After all, sometimes her simple words in front of the head of the department are enough to affect the future of an official.

However, in front of Shi Lei, she still maintained the posture of a junior as she did the last time they met.

As soon as Shi Lei's carriage arrived at the Yamen, she was already waiting outside the gate, with an appropriate elegant smile on her face, and greeted him politely.

?“ It was too hard for Shi Qianhu to come all the way from Laizhou Mansion to the capital," I just heard her smile and said, "Please also ask Shi Qianhu to come into the house with me to rest for a while, I happened to prepare fresh Shiya white tea for you inside." ”

Shi Lei followed her up the steps, crossed the threshold, walked along the corridor, and walked towards the yamen.

Along the way, Shangguan Jin used a casual tone like idle chat, and introduced the behavior of the Laoshan ruins not long ago, and talked to Shi Lei about the customs and ghosts of Laizhou Mansion, and praised Shi Lei a few words, saying that he was a "good official who is attentive to the people's feelings and is serious and meticulous"; After the two talked about the disaster in Qingzhou Mansion and also affected Laizhou Mansion, Shangguan Jin showed a worried expression and expressed his concern unabashedly.

Shangguan Jin's expression and words were like a gentle drizzle, which made Shi Lei's mood gradually relax - as if the person he was talking to was not the eyes and ears of the head of the exorcism department, but a friend who had been reunited after a long absence.

It wasn't until the two arrived in a side room in the backyard of the Yamen that Shi Lei realized that he had unknowingly revealed a lot of confidential information about Laizhou Mansion and said a lot of psychological words.

At this moment, looking at the young and beautiful face of the woman in front of him, as well as the subtle and elegant smile, Shi Lei was full of emotion-

Shangguan Jin's age is only two or three years older than his daughter, but he has become the only official in the court, with such a powerful scheming skill, and everyone's perfect demeanor.

On the other hand, his daughter is clearly over eighteen years old, but she still looks like a child who doesn't grow up, full of food and unrealistic heroic dreams.

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Because Shi Lei is indeed a conscientious official, he handles the affairs of Laizhou Mansion in an orderly manner on weekdays, so his debriefing process is very smooth.

"Shi Qianhu, do you have anything else that you need me and the Exorcism Division headquarters to help you with?" Shangguan Jin asked politely, picked up the white porcelain teapot on the table, and poured Shi Lei a cup of hot tea.

"I want to exchange three thousand merits for an opportunity to ask the head of the department for a question." Shi Lei said without hesitation. On the way to Beijing, he had already pondered this issue repeatedly and made up his mind.

Within the Great Qi Exorcism Division, there are many things that can be exchanged for meritorious deeds - not only can they be exchanged for pills, exercises, and martial arts, but they can also be used to ask high-level powerhouses to answer questions, or to exchange for opportunities to enter the "Old Pot" to train actual combat skills.

Even asking questions from the head of the Boss is clearly marked with a price.

It's just that this price is very expensive, and ordinary officials may spend their entire lives, and it is difficult to save enough, after all, they have to spend most of their merits on just needs such as pills.

As for those officials who have the ability to accumulate thousands, or even tens of thousands, of meritorious deeds, they naturally have many opportunities to meet with the head of the department. If you have any doubts, you can ask them face to face, and there is no need to waste these feats.

In this regard, Gu Xu secretly complained in his heart that the so-called opportunity to ask questions once in three thousand meritorious deeds was essentially set up by the head of Luo Si for himself, to set off his image of knowing the world and knowing everything.

"Is it a spiritual problem?" After hearing Shi Lei's words, Shangguan Jin smiled and said, "To tell you the truth, Shi Qianhu, if you want to ask Lord Si Shou for advice, I can go and ask Lord Si Shou for instructions right now to arrange your meeting." In this way, you can save these three thousand merits. ”

"It's not a matter of cultivation," Shi Lei hesitated for a moment and replied, "I have this question...... Well, something might not be right. ”

Shangguan Jin did not continue to ask "why it is inappropriate".

She's very good at reading words and feelings.

From Shi Lei's expression, she could see that the other party had made up her mind and didn't want to discuss too much on this topic.

So she took out paper and charcoal from her sleeve and handed them to Shi Lei.

"I'll pass your questions to the Head."

Shi Lei nodded and took the pen and paper.

Then he wrote down a question on a piece of paper, stroke by stroke:

"What kind of cultivation realm can Gu Xu achieve in the future?"

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